NAME
selective_proxy - Simple HTTP Proxy which can be configured to serve
some paths from locations on local disk.
SYNOPSIS
# Install, standard (MacOS/Linux).
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install
# Install, .exe version (can be copied to other systems without perl). Needs the PAR::Dist and PAR::Packer modules from CPAN.
# Yes, this is hacky, there should be Makefile targets to do this. I'm speaking to the Module::Install author about it,
# so hopefully this will be less fugly in the next release :)
perl Makefile.PL
make par
pp script/selective_proxy -o selective_proxy
sudo cp selective_proxy /usr/local/bin/
# Run (Installed)
selective_proxy example_config.ini
# Run (without installing)
perl Makefile.PL
make
perl -Iblib/lib script/selective_proxy example_config.ini
DESCRIPTION
"selective_proxy" acts as a filtering web proxy. You pass it a
configuration file when started, which contains a list of sites and
paths. Any GET or HEAD HTTP requests which match one of the sites and
paths configured is served from local disk by the proxy.
This allows you to try out new CSS / Javascript / Images for a website,
without having any access to the site (or code it is running), and so
this tool can be used as a multi-platform and multi-browser CSS
developer tool for web authors.
EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION
# Note that more options are available, please see example_config.ini in the distribution for usage.
port = 3128
[search.cpan.org]
/s/=/tmp/css
/stuff/=/tmp/stuff
[www.google.com]
/js/=/tmp/js
/some/file.jpg=/tmp/somefile.jpg
Notes
When you want to map an entire directory (as opposed to a specific
file), then use of the trailing slash (as shown in the examples above)
is highly recommended, otherwise you can and will confuse yourself with
unintended side effects.
SEE ALSO
HTTP::Proxy::Selective - Library module used by and shipped with this
script.
HTTP::Proxy - Provides the basis for this software.
Catalyst::Engine::HTTP - Many parts of the HTTP server were ripped out
of this module.
AUTHOR
Tomas Doran,
CREDITS
This software is based upon a number of other open source projects, and
builds on software originally implemented by the following people.
Philippe (BooK) Bruhat - HTTP::Proxy, the basis for this module.
Sebastian Riedel, Andy Grubman, Dan Kubb, Sascha Kiefer -
Catalyst::Engine::HTTP, inspiration as a pure perl web server.
Jesse Vincent - HTTP::Server::Simple, which Catalyst::Engine::HTTP stole
a lot of code from..
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran. All rights reserved.
LICENSE
This software is licensed to Venda, and may be distributed to third
parties, but is not for public redistribution.